Events

Human Agenda puts on its own signature events, engages in roundtable dialogues on critical human needs, and calls for personal and policy actions to create a more humane and meaningful existence for all. Signature annual events of Human Agenda are hands-on learning opportunities to deepen our understanding and improve our practices with respect to how we live our own lives and how to address the physical poverty and time poverty that harm so many lives.

Human Agenda Celebrates Hope

On December 7 Human Agenda invites the community to its First Annual Celebration of Hope: A Fiesta for a Better Future at Casa Vicky’s. Human Agenda’s Community Impact Award will be presented to Sacred Heart Executive Director Poncho Guevara for the incomparable combination of service and advocacy of that organization on behalf of low-income residents, while its Human Rights Award will be presented to Sunnyvale Vice-mayor Jim Griffith for his pathbreaking efforts to create a sustainable Sunnyvale.

Hot food, live music, and a silent auction will punctuate this event honoring all community members who seek a better world. The accomplishments of Human Agenda in 2013 will be mentioned during a short program and a special birthday celebration will be held for board member Karen Lee Wald.

The event will take place from 6 to 9 PM in the casita, the exquisite house to the right of Casa Vicky’s, located at 792 E. Julian Street (17th & Julian) in San Jose.

For the past 10 years Human Agenda has held a Hunger Banquet each December based on the model of Oxfam America. After sitting on the floor for 10 years, eating the meager morsels that over 1 billion of the world’s people eat, and providing conscious programming on world hunger, Human Agenda has decided to move to a celebration of hope for a better future, strategically emphasizing those positive things we are for that we can all work on together in 2014, including democracy, environmental sustainability, and meeting the human needs of everyone through a sharing economy.

To RSVP, which is necessary, or for more information about the event contact Elizabeth Sarmiento at es.peace@gmail.com or 650-704-3462.

Human Agenda

The mission of Human Agenda is to envision a world where the human needs of all can be met, engage the community in forging local institutions that are democratic, cooperative, egalitarian, sustainable, and kind, and take individual responsibility to embody the change we’d like to see.